South By Southwest (SXSW): March 10-12 (Austin, TX)

Intel AI Lounge @ South by Southwest

“The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference & Festivals celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery.” (https://www.sxsw.com/about/)

Guests Included

Suresh Acharya
Head of JDA Labs

Machine learning set to power real-time autonomous systems
Reality and the digital world are coming together. Cheap sensors, combined with the Internet of Things and big data processing, allow a company to monitor equipment, product, environment, and more. The end result is instant reaction at the point of interaction. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Michelle Bacharach
Cofounder and CEO, FINDMINE

AI can do that too? Retail therapy for closet overload
Michelle Bacharach had a problem. She would buy an article of clothing and then realize it didn’t go with anything else in her closet. Then she found a way for artificial intelligence to do in seconds what her human brain could not. Read the full blog post with highlights from her interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Brian Fanzo
Founder, iSocialFanz

Even with AI, people are still the driving force of innovation
The dream of artificial intelligence has been alive for about as long as we have had computers, if not longer, and thanks to recent advancements in hardware and machine learning, that dream is now more real than ever. And it has potential not only as a business tool but as something that can benefit the entire human race, from curing cancer to improving life for the visually impaired. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Dr. Dawn Nafus
Anthropologist, Intel

The AI ethics gap: the dangers of democratizing data
The role of data that fuels artificial intelligence raises some ethical questions. Who owns the data collected from healthcare devices or the information gathered from a Fitbit? The technology industry is now trying to resolve the principles of collecting data and its democratization. Read the full blog post with highlights from her interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

How big data and AI helped one man fight and survive cancer
Once upon a time, there was a man who worked for a technology company. He found out he had an advanced cancer. He tried the “one-size-fits-all” chemo/radiation treatments, but he didn’t get any better. So he went to the healthcare group at his company, asked to work there, and became his own advocate. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Ben Parr
Co-Founder & CMO, Octane AI

Is Facebook’s Messenger bot the best social strategy for corporate AI?
Businesses, entrepreneurs and public figures tired of trailing targets on the endless circuit of social apps might find some respite in chatbots. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Dr. Naveen Rao
VP and GM, Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Intel

A Jetsons world: how artificial intelligence will revolutionize work and play
As artificial intelligence tools become smarter and easier to use, the threat that they may take human jobs is real. They might also just make people much better at what they do, revolutionizing the workday for many. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Robert Scoble
Partner, Transformation Group.io

The ‘Scobleizer’ proclaims 2017 the year of virtual reality at SXSW
Last year’s breakout, mobile gaming hit Pokeman GO relied on augmented reality for its unique combination of digital imagery “monsters” laid on top of real-world visuals and GPS mapping. If that’s how you like your AR, then you’re really going to love The Scobleizer’s vision of the future. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

This nonprofit uses AI, deep learning to fight crimes against children
At this year’s South by Southwest the theme for our conference tech coverage is “AI for good.” Technologists will be discussing how they are using new developments in artificial intelligence to solve complex, long-standing social problems, including crimes against children. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Ali Vahabzadeh
Founder & CEO, Chariot

Will AI make daily commutes the best part of your workday?
Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have made the daily commute a less frustrating part of the day for many. Now a crowd-sourced fleet of 14-passenger vehicles acquired by Ford Motor Company is promising more. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.

Alison Yu
Social Media Manager, Cloudera

From soup kitchens to strategic partnerships: the power of Cloudera Cares + Thorn
The employees of Cloudera Inc. founded Cloudera Cares three years ago, and it continues to be an employee-driven and -led effort. With its latest initiative, Cloudera Cares is collaborating with Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children to use the power of artificial intelligence and big data in the fight against child sexual exploitation. Read the full blog post with highlights from his interview at SiliconANGLE.com.